September 18, 2011

Oh, how I fulminated in 1992, when Ross Perot was challenged for not having women in his inner circle of advisors and he said:

But in terms of being influenced by women and being a minority, there they are right out there, my wife and my 4 beautiful daughters, and I just have 1 son, so he and I are surrounded by women, giving -- telling us what to do all the time.

My son John remembers, because we've watched the great documentary "The War Room" together many times, and when that part comes up, I've always gone into my rant that looks a lot like the rant I did over the new Ron Suskind book about Obama's inner circle when Anita Dunn tried to roll back her attack on Obama for the lack of women in his inner circle by saying "The president is someone who when he goes home at night he goes home to house full of very strong women... He values having strong women around him."

Dunn's roll back is lame because her original criticism was lame, there was no substance to it. What is the evidence that Obama's a sexist pig, exactly? Does he call his femsle employees "baby" and purposely drop handkerchiefs on the floor for them to bend over and pick up? Give me something to work with here, other than someone whining "Me and my girlfiends felt underappreciated".

Hillary, when she walked into the West Wing ... and people heard the "tap tap" of her heels ... they'd immediately HIDE!

They'd just open an available door, and jump right in!

(And, I used to know executive suites just like that!)

There were stories some people just jumped into the broom closet. Others? Jumped into private offices. And, made believe their was nothing odd in doing that at all.

(And, in some places were I used to work ... I knew men who hid out in toilets. Behind closed stall doors. For as long as they could.)

Of course, "back then" was a world where secretaries took incoming messages. And, made outgoing phone calls. Today's world?

Yesterday, my son told me ... that a phone call to him ... as he was driving here ... was changed into a "text message." (Seems they have ways of translating what you say into text.) His first reaction was the he couldn't believe I was texting him.

Then, he shared with me, when he arrived, here, the technology that's avaiable.

(And, when we were looking for an open restaurant at 10:PM ... he not only located some ... but first read through the reviews people post on line.)

xnar said...It's the same retort used when people are accused of racism:

A lot of my friends are black.

Weak.

=================Not really that weak.Given the charge of racism towards blacks is implying that you hate all blacks, a natural retort is given you have black friends and get along well with many black acquaintences, you are NOT racist.

Liberals, race card plying blacks, and progressive Jews have defended their race, gender, class narrative by essentially mocking that defense - quite successfully - by claiming that the defense "some of my pals are black" is PROOF of racism precisely because you claim friendships across racial lines while holding beliefs contrary to the narrative's specified demands for racial justice.

The Russian and Jewish Bolsheviks began this and also did a masterful job at making that same defense, along class lines, a de facto admission of guilt. They recognized that the class struggle would not work as an imperative for forced change and legitimacy of punishment if it was accepted that friendships across "class lines" could be an avenue of defense against "oppression" accusations and a defense against the punishments planned for the oppressor classes save certain select well off Jews and Russians with Communist Party "ins" that would not be so targeted.

10,000 Orthodox priests liquidated for the harm they did to the Proletariate and their anti-Semitism could not exculpate themselves by saying they had many workers and Jews they were on great terms with. That defense was scorned.Same with Kulaks on the lists to be liquidated that had each farmworker supporting them. No deal. They were still part of a class that had to go...and the workers that did defend them soon learned they could also "go" or be sent to the Gulags as counter-revolutionaries and traitors to their class.And someone of the Bourgeoisie married to a member of the Proletariate offering that and various worker friendships as reason not to be subjected to harm or loss of property? Same deal. Class lines were paramount.